What was your favorite Google I/O keynote announcement?

The announcement section is over, and all that's left of the Google I/O 2013 keynote is a question and answer section with Google CEO Larry Page. There have been a ton of announcements across all of Google's products from Android to the web to iOS and more. So, the real question is: What was your favorite Google I/O keynote announcement?

They did state that it was going to be developer focused. From a developers persepctive all the things that have been announced today are actually extremely exciting. And a lot of the features are technically an upgrade of Android, they just didn't really slap a 4.3 number onto it. They technically could of announced all this and called it Android 4.3

No GTR722 the world does not revolve around you. Good tools for developers make developers happy. Which may translate to better apps/services, which makes customers happy. Which may translate to money-throwing customers, which then may make Google and developers happy.

Besides, did you not see Keynote Day -1-? DAY ONE. The only fail is you.

98% software and internet based.
Sadly, the 2% of hardware announcement wasn't entirely hardware based at all.
O, well...these are still improvements in the Google-Android eco-systems so it's not that bad. And the news of the new Nexus 5 is still ticking so...
Somehow, i think in Q3 and Q4, smartphones of all varieties are going to rain heavily for us all.

Wow! An other dissapointment! Yesterday Nokia dissapoinred me with it's event (I like the Lumia 925, but the event was a dissapointment) and today Google dissapointed me... I was excpecting so much new things from these to events... Hope they will satisfy us later this year!

I was a tad disappointed that no new Android version was shown but I really understand why.
This is giving all manufactures and carriers the time to roll out JB 4.2.2. So far a rash of devices have been receiving the update and that is a good thing. To have rolled out a new Version while everyone was just getting to 4.2.2 would have defeated the purpose of all those devices being upgraded to 4.2.2 because the owners would still be behind.
As for new product announcements I don't think they should have introduced a new nexus tablet or phone as you have great android devices competing now ( HTC One, S4, Sony Z, LG Pro) Google wins here regardless. New product announcements should be done in time for the holiday season. A new Nexus 7 and Nexus Phone. But that's my opinion and I am certainly not a marketing expert.

The only letdowns are false rumours which build up hype which we all fall for, only to be shot down by reality. It kinda defeats whatever excitement we may have had or will have for any future Android/Google endeavours and only makes people look more forward to what Apple will bring with IOS 7. The Note 3 is now admittedly looking a little less exciting now knowing it will be outed with the same Android version as the S4 and will probably not be getting an update to 4.3 until next year, which ironically, 4.3 will STILL be Jellybean.

Seriously we are so spoilt that we think companies owe us, and that because there were no hardware announcements or new android announcements this I/O is automatically a fail. We should be thankful we getting anything and that most of these features could have been put as 4.3 jellybean but they are making this available to previous versions so its a big win! I am slightly disappointed there was no new android but this was to get OEMS up to date, and this I/o was primarily focused on developers. This could be better as well as it means the next tech we get will be real upgrades instead of incremental updates!

lol people complaining about the lack of a new os or hardware..we got a gs4 with pure android, this may not be everyones fav phone but its a sign that future phones may come with the option of stock or tw/sense etc...finally when apple update there os what were the major updates they talked about? it was updates to siri and a new map app. apple had to introduce a whole new os just to introduce these new features. google did the same, ie new google now features,new game service,new maps app etc all without an os update...so even though the os number may not be 4.3 or 5.0 , google today addede the same amount of update and more via just app updates than what a full ios 6 os update added.

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